Help reveal the truth behind the Boxing Day Hunt

Mulled wine, minced pies…and animals fleeing their death.

For most of us, Christmas is a time of love, laughter and family gatherings. It’s the season for celebrating traditions, but not all of them are cheerful.

As you gather with your loved ones, hounds crash through the countryside barking louder and louder, riders charge their horses faster and faster towards the hunt’s prey. A terrified mother fox becomes separated from her cubs and in the blink of an eye her family is quite brutally and quite literally, torn apart. For the troupes of foxes, herds of deer and husks of hare, this hunt season is far from a time of togetherness.

What law breakers will do to hide the truth

As the ‘festive’ outing of the Boxing Day Hunt is in the spotlight at this time of year, we all know what that means – everyone will be on their best behaviour. Jolly red faces to match their jolly red coats, pretending their hounds now only follow artificial trails.

Hunters use this time to glorify this inhumane sport and lead the public to believe there is real strength in the ‘law-abiding’ hunting community. But this is just a distraction from the brutality that occurs every other day of the season.

Please give a gift this Christmas, and help us reveal the true cruelty of this hunt season.

Despite the façade of the Boxing Day Hunt, we will work tirelessly to reveal the illegal activities that make a mockery of the hunting ban. They claim to be trail hunting but hunt monitors, who are out there on the front lines, have estimated that in 97% of the trail hunts they have witnessed, they did not see any evidence of trails being laid.

How your donation can help:

£15 can help us educate and lobby MPs to ensure they help defend the Hunting Act and the animals it protects

£30 can pay for warm clothing to protect our team from the harsh winter weather as they investigate the truth of the season

£50 can help us protect British wildlife with our ongoing campaigns to raise awareness

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As a team, we share the same passion – to stop animal cruelty in the name of sport. We are a tight knit team and we work hard within a fun, relaxed environment. We also offer something many employers don’t – an office full of friendly dogs!

Hunting was banned in England and Wales in 2004, but the law has never been properly enforced, and attempts to weaken or repeal it continue. The hunting law in Scotland is weak, and hunting is still legal in Northern Ireland.

Hurting and killing animals for ‘sport’ is one of the principal causes of animal cruelty in the UK: tens of millions suffer and die each year for ‘leisure’ activities. We’re here to protect those animals.

The Hunting Act 2004 is the law which bans chasing wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales – this basically means that fox hunting, deer hunting, hare hunting, hare coursing and mink hunting are all illegal, as they all are cruel sports based on dogs chasing wild mammals.

Bullfighting is perhaps the most well known spectator “sport” involving the killing of animals for entertainment. It has already been banned in most countries, but each year tens of thousands of bulls are maimed, tortured and killed for entertainment in Spain, Portugal, France, Colombia, Mexico, USA, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.

The hidden side of greyhound racing includes dogs kept for long periods in lonely kennels, painful injuries from racing and training, illness and neglect. Shockingly, thousands of surplus dogs die or disappear every year. The League believes dogs should not suffer or die for entertainment or for the profit of the dog racing industry.